Central America
Honduras: Aguán campesino leader arrested
The president of a campesino organization claiming disputed lands is arrested, while the landowners and their security guards enjoy impunity amid ongoing violence.
Tag: Honduras
Central America
Honduras: center-left candidate edges ahead
In a big shift for the Honduran political scene, the presidential candidate of the newly formed center-left Freedom and Refoundation Party is slightly ahead in a new opinon poll.
Central America
Honduras: are ‘model cities’ back on the agenda?
National Congress president Juan Orlando Hernández has introduced a bill to create semi-autonomous zones that look a lot like the “model cities” ruled unconstitutional.
Central America
Honduras: deadly DEA raid —again
A suspected drug trafficker was killed in the first DEA-backed drug raid in Honduras following a five-month suspension in radar intelligence sharing between the countries.
Central America
Honduras: two more campesinos killed in Aguán
Two campesinos were shot dead as violence continued in land disputes in the Lower Aguán Valley; the victims had been occupying land claimed by a university.
Central America
Honduras: another campesino murdered in Aguán
The number of dead in the violence over the three years since the land disputes broke out in the Aguán region of Honduras is now about 90, the great majority of them campesinos.
North America
SOA protests continue; Church expels activist priest
Thousands attended the annual protest against the US Army’s School of the Americas while the Catholic Church dismissed the priest who launched the protests 22 years ago.
Central America
Colombia rejects Hague ruling in Nicaragua maritime dispute
Protests swept Colombia following a World Court ruling that awarded Caribbean waters potentially rich in hydrocarbons to Nicaragua.
Central America
Honduras: four dead in latest Aguán violence
Four more campesinos were killed in the Aguán Valley, a site of violent land disputes, as international activists pressured the World Bank over a loan to the leading Aguán landowner.
Central America
Honduras: court quashes ‘model cities’; investors eye Jamaica
With “model cities” rejected by the Supreme Court in Honduras, proponents are looking to take the neoliberal scheme to Jamaica—and maybe even to Greece.
North America
MS-13 gang makes US ‘criminal organization’ list
Mara Salvatrucha, the Salvadoran street gang that got its start in Los Angeles' Koreatown, has been officially designated by US authorities as an "transnational criminal organization."
Central America
Honduras: Supreme Court blocks ‘model cities’ —for now
The Honduran Supreme Court ruled that legislation creating autonomous regions known as “Model Cities” is unconstitutional. President Lobo expects to go ahead with the project anyway.